-The pictures and musings of James Purves
Archive for November, 2005
2005-11-30 22:47:00
Nov 30th
Had a great weekend up in Scum-dee, trip up was good despite 7 hours on the train, wedding party was excellent, Derek and Paula looked amazing. Headed to bed fairly early but got woken at 4.45 am when the hotel fire alarm went off, after 10 minutes in the cold the fire brigade came and let us back in. Train home was a bit of pain, 8 hours long and packed full of idiots!
Uploaded the photos too!
Recently our street has turned into the joyride dumping ground of London. Which at first is not surprising given its quiet and fairly poorly lit location, but you’d have thought that the little theives would have realised that there are only two roads into and out of the estate and if the police were actually chasing them then they’d be screwed.
Thought I’d share the one dumped in the street the other night that we still there three days later:
This one has been parked there for 3 days and seems to be getting worse and worse each day. very neatly parked though!
This one on the other hand has been sitting in a bush for over a week, at first I thought it was such very poor provisional driver (hence the “P” plate) who’d just simply lost control but now it would appear to just be an abandoned car:
2005-11-25 18:58:00
Nov 25th
Matt sent me this, had to share:
Remember the Deutsche song? … this is worse! Get ready to cringe ALL over again!!
Off to Dundee tomorrow with Sian for Derek’s wedding reception, 8 hours on the train just to get there – hope it makes it through the wind, rain, sleet and snow forcasted otherwise we’ll miss the whole thing!
Trying to think what’s been happening of late:
– Went out with Aidan and Sinead for a few drinks on Tuesday night which was clearly a few too many for me cos I ended up talking complete b*llocks.
– Went out on Thursday with Derek to celebrate his last night out before the wedding, ended up in Abacus but it was really too busy to dance like a loon.
– Work is stupidly busy at the moment – ended up working all day last Saturday.
– Went up to Reading last Saturday night to see Jim and help celebrate his birthday.
– Matt and I successfully fitted a burglar alarm to the flat, our neighbours weren’t quite as successful and managed to set their’s off on Friday night. Grr
– Mum and Dad are hosting a Scottish celebration in Sri Lanka this weekend for 350 guests!
– Ellen has the mumps.
– My team at work found my website… they haven’t managed to find anything too embarrassing so far but its only a matter of time – the about me page is pretty bad!
– Been to see the new Harry Potter and its pretty good, not brilliant but worth seeing. Impressed that they managed to squeeze such a long book into a normal film length but its definitely missing things I liked in the book. Still got the new book to read, its been sitting on my bookshelf since the day it was released – still unread!
2005-11-11 11:40:00
Nov 11th
Safely back from Budapest, not sure if I can stretch to a full update but the highlights were definately quad biking, clay pigeon shooting, bob-sleighing and drinking. Good time had by all 26 of us and Derek even managed to make it home in one piece (his hair didn’t)…
Some very poor photos and videos from my phone to share with you, you’ll need to open the videos in Internet Explorer and have QuickTime installed to view them (I’ll try and fix that this weekend), enjoy:
